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In the records kept by well-to-families concerned with lineage, the contubernia of slaves were acknowledged along with family births, deaths, and manumissions...

essentially the equivalent of a modern squad, although unlike modern squads contubernia seemed to serve no tactical role in battle. It was likely used to maintain...

contubernium-abreast (8-abreast plus 2 support). In the Imperial Legion, ten contubernia formed a centuria. Maniple (Manipulus) – The pre-Marian sub-unit of the...

the Latin word for a javelin. A century of 80 men was divided into ten contubernia, each of eight men, who shared a single A-frame tent together. A contubernium...

comprised six centuries, with a century further made up of ten squads (contubernia); the exact size of the Imperial legion, which was likely determined...

junior officers, such as an optio. Centuries were further broken into ten contubernia of eight soldiers each. The manipula were commanded by one of their two...

individuals in their households to establish quasi-marital unions (known as contubernia) as a means of forming communal bonds among the enslaved, these unions...

men. Each century had its own standard and was made up of ten units (contubernia) of eight men who shared a tent, a millstone, a mule and cooking pot...

mule-train of c. 1,400 mules. (In addition, each of the legion's 600 contubernia – 8-man platoons who shared a campaign-tent – possessed one or two mules...

normally a cohabitation between two slaves within the same household, and contubernia were recorded along with births, deaths, and manumissions in large households...

and beneficial for him to enter into an enduring heterosexual union (contubernia) and raise a family. The duties of the vilicus and those of his female...

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workshops and, of course, the actual troop quarters, subdivided into contubernia. Two such troop barracks have been reconstructed in the southeast part...

each. Each centuria was separated further into 10 "tent groups" (Latin: contubernia) of 8 men each. Legions additionally consisted of a small body, typically...

precise date of 4 to 9 AD. In addition, soldiers' accommodation blocks (contubernia), defences and gate systems have been investigated. The time horizon...

central headquarters building (Principia), four barracks for the soldiers (Contubernia) with their quarters, the commander's residence (Praetorium), as well...

The barracks was extended in the third century (probably to house 4 contubernia (32 men)). A further building of unknown function erected a short distance...

crew barracks could be determined. During the excavation in 2004, six contubernia of one of these barracks were uncovered. The civil settlement, the vicus...